Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 20

[cahn]

Yuletide signups so far:
3 requests for Frederician RPF, 2 offers
2 requests for Circle of Voltaire RPF, 3 offers !! :D :D

(I am so curious as to who the third person is!)

Comments

Re: Acrylic Adventures

[mildred_of_midgard]

See, I hear you on not wanting to draw them, but one idea that immediately came to mind when I read this sentence was her pinning English flaggs on Wilhelmine and Fritz. :)

Hee. The two things that came to mind for attributes for her were the English flag and a crown.

AW and Heinrich: well, the most visual of objects connecting them is the Obelisk.:(

Me: What about the bu-

Also the bust of AW in the Rheinsberg park

:)

I could imagine a visualization of this by little AW returning his toy sword to Dad.

OMG I want grieving and extremely not reconciled Hans Heinrich at the big revue laying his sword down before FW!! There are paintings of Hans Heinrich, this is doable! (I mean, by someone with artistic talent, not me. :P)

Context:

Stratemann: Berlin, June 31st 1731: Supposedly General Lieutenant v. Katte after leading his regiment at the revue before the King got off his horse and put his sword at the King's feet, and asked again for his demission, whereupon his majesty showed itself very much displeased. Rumor even has it (Hans Heinrich) got arrested as a consequence.

selenak: Now, obviously the arrest didn't happen - I don't think biographers would have overlooked that! -, but this is also the first time I heard about Hans Heinrich making this gesture. Since the revue was a really big public spectacle (this is also why Fritz was pissed off when Heinrich didn't salute him properly in the after the 7 Years War, remember), such a gesture would have been quite something. And does argue it's FW Hans Heinrich is struggling for forgive. Not to mention that it gives the lie to the "Hans Heinrich totally on board with FW executing his son!" version. All the more so since Stratemann is really the most FW friendly envoy ever.

WANT.

That's also one of the things done at casheerings (though not at AW's as far as I know)

Fritz: See? Our family is so harmonious!

AW puts fire on a fir tree to see what happens before realising this is a terrible idea

Sounds complicated, but I would love it! Would also love it as fic if someone were inspired, just saying.